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Centromere Strength Provides the Cell Biological Basis for Meiotic Drive and Karyotype Evolution in Mice

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Chromosomal Rearrangements as a Major Mechanism in the Onset of Reproductive Isolation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

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Analysis of the Genome and Transcriptome of Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii Reveals Complex RNA Expression and Microevolution Leading to Virulence Attenuation

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Chromosome Engineering Allows the Efficient Isolation of Vertebrate Neocentromeres

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CodonPhyML: Fast Maximum Likelihood Phylogeny Estimation under Codon Substitution Models

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Epigenetic Inactivation and Subsequent Heterochromatinization of a Centromere Stabilize Dicentric Chromosomes

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A Coordinated Interdependent Protein Circuitry Stabilizes the Kinetochore Ensemble to Protect CENP-A in the Human Pathogenic Yeast Candida albicans

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The Requirement for the Dam1 Complex Is Dependent upon the Number of Kinetochore Proteins and Microtubules

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Heterochromatin Is Required for Normal Distribution of Neurospora crassa CenH3

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Loss of centromeric histone H3 (CENH3) from centromeres precedes uniparental chromosome elimination in interspecific barley hybrids

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Drosophila CENH3 Is Sufficient for Centromere Formation

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Mechanisms of Chromosome Number Evolution in Yeast

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Results from the ARTEMIS DISK Global Antifungal Surveillance Study, 1997 to 2007: a 10.5-Year Analysis of Susceptibilities of Candida Species to Fluconazole and Voriconazole as Determined by CLSI Standardized Disk Diffusion

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Candida tropicalis: its prevalence, pathogenicity and increasing resistance to fluconazole

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Chimpanzee and human Y chromosomes are remarkably divergent in structure and gene content

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Telomere Disruption Results in Non-Random Formation of De Novo Dicentric Chromosomes Involving Acrocentric Human Chromosomes

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Neocentromeres Form Efficiently at Multiple Possible Loci in Candida albicans

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Rapid Evolution of Yeast Centromeres in the Absence of Drive

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Dissection of centromeric DNA from yeast Yarrowia lipolytica and identification of protein-binding site required for plasmid transmission

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Epigenetic regulation of centromeric chromatin: old dogs, new tricks?

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Rapid evolution of Cse4p-rich centromeric DNA sequences in closely related pathogenic yeasts, Candida albicans and Candida dubliniensis

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Heterochromatin and RNAi Are Required to Establish CENP-A Chromatin at Centromeres

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Heterochromatin Integrity Affects Chromosome Reorganization After Centromere Dysfunction

(2008) K. Ishii et al.   SCIENCE